- Fiction, Fiction in English, Gold smuggling, James Bond (Fictitious character)
A friendly game of two-handed canasta turns out to be thoroughly crooked. And a beautiful girl ends up dead. In Bond's first encounter with Auric Goldfinger - the world's cleverest, cruellest criminal, useful lessons are learned.
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Classical in form, resolved, cool and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Ian Fleming
- First published
- April 4, 2002
- Pages
- 295
- Publisher
- French & European Pubns, Signet Books, General
- Editions
- 144
- Language
- Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, French
- ISBN
- 9781784872014
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“James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.”
A British author and journalist. **Ian Fleming**, creator of the world's best-known secret agent, was consultant on foreign affairs to the *London Sunday Times*. In all, he wrote thirteen *James Bond* novels. The twelfth, *You Only Live Twice*, is published in hardcover by New American Library; the thirteenth, *The Man with the Golden Gun*, was published in the spring of 1965. Mr. Fleming died August 12, 1964, at the age of fifty-six.
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